#RPOatHome: Test your knowledge on orchestral music that’s inspired by the beauty and romance of everything floral

1. Roses from the South by “the Waltz King” Johann Strauss II was first performed in 1880 in which city?

2. The white mountain flower Edelweiss, famously depicted in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, can be found on the 2 Euro cent coin of which country?

3. The Walk to the Paradise Garden, an orchestral interlude from Frederick Delius’ opera A Village Romeo and Juliet, was given its first UK performance by the which conductor? (Hint – founder of the RPO)

4. Which aspiring lover in Bizet’s Carmen sings about a flower thrown to him by the opera’s seductive heroine?

5. Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums) is a movement for string quartet by which composer, better known for operas including Madama Butterfly, La bohème and Tosca?

6. There is no Rose features in which English composer’s 1942 choral work A Ceremony of Carols?

7. The Flower Duet from Léo Delibes’ 1883 opera Lakmé was famously used in an advertising campaign for which airline?

8. The title character in Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly fills her house with flowers to impress her American husband, soldier

9. Often heard at Christmas, Tchaikovsky’s Waltz of the Flowers comes from the second act of which of his works?

10. The Tale of the Stone Flower is the eighth and final ballet by which Russian composer (better known for the ballet Romeo and Juliet)?